Crash of a Bristol 142 Blenheim IV into the North Sea: 3 killed

Date & Time: Jul 9, 1940 at 1145 LT
Type of aircraft:
Operator:
Registration:
R3732
Flight Phase:
Flight Type:
Survivors:
No
Schedule:
Lossiemouth - Lossiemouth
Country:
Region:
Crew on board:
3
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
3
Circumstances:
The airplane departed RAF Lossiemouth at 0800LT on a bombing mission over Stavanger. Lost without trace.
Crew:
W/Cdr Leslie Clive Bennett, pilot,
Sgt Albert Thomas Summers, observer,
Sgt Christopher James Burt, wireless operator and air gunner.

Crash of a Bristol 142 Blenheim IV into the North Sea: 3 killed

Date & Time: Jul 9, 1940 at 1015 LT
Type of aircraft:
Operator:
Registration:
R3822
Flight Phase:
Flight Type:
Survivors:
No
Schedule:
Lossiemouth - Lossiemouth
Country:
Region:
Crew on board:
3
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
3
Circumstances:
The airplane departed RAF Lossiemouth on a bombing mission over Stavanger. Lost without trace.
Crew:
P/O John Alistair Heath-Brown, pilot,
Sgt William Arthur Hamlyn, observer,
Sgt Emyr Williams, wireless operator and air gunner.

Crash of a Bristol 142 Blenheim IV into the North Sea: 3 killed

Date & Time: Jul 9, 1940 at 1010 LT
Type of aircraft:
Operator:
Registration:
R3876
Flight Phase:
Flight Type:
Survivors:
No
Schedule:
Lossiemouth - Lossiemouth
Country:
Region:
Crew on board:
3
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
3
Circumstances:
The airplane departed RAF Lossiemouth on a bombing mission over Stavanger. Lost without trace.
Crew:
Sgt John Mathieson Barnet Brown, pilot,
Sgt Claude Donald Stevens, observer,
Sgt James Morton, wireless operator and air gunner.

Crash of a Bristol 142 Blenheim IV into the North Sea: 3 killed

Date & Time: Jul 9, 1940 at 1010 LT
Type of aircraft:
Operator:
Registration:
N3619
Flight Phase:
Flight Type:
Survivors:
No
Schedule:
Lossiemouth - Lossiemouth
Country:
Region:
Crew on board:
3
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
3
Circumstances:
The airplane departed RAF Lossiemouth on a bombing mission over Stavanger. Lost without trace.
Crew:
P/O William Duncan Mackley, pilot,
Sgt William Lloyd Rawson, observer,
Sgt Jack Brereton Dorrington, wireless operator and air gunner.

Crash of a Bristol 142 Blenheim IV into the North Sea: 3 killed

Date & Time: Jul 9, 1940 at 1010 LT
Type of aircraft:
Operator:
Registration:
L8872
Flight Phase:
Flight Type:
Survivors:
No
Schedule:
Lossiemouth - Lossiemouth
Country:
Region:
Crew on board:
3
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
3
Circumstances:
The airplane departed RAF Lossiemouth on a bombing mission over Stavanger. Lost without trace.
Crew:
F/LT John David William Murray, pilot,
Sgt Tom Willoughby Hartley, observer,
Sgt Gerald Ernest Duck, wireless operator and air gunner.

Crash of a Handley Page H.P.52 Hampden I into the North Sea: 4 killed

Date & Time: Jul 4, 1940
Operator:
Registration:
P4352
Flight Phase:
Flight Type:
Survivors:
No
Schedule:
Waddington - Waddington
Country:
Region:
Crew on board:
4
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
4
Circumstances:
The airplane departed RAF Waddington on a mine laying mission. It crashed into the North Sea, maybe off the Danish coast. No trace of the aircraft nor the crew was found.
Crew:
P/O Desmond Arthur Todd, pilot,
Sgt Arthur Baird, observer,
F/Lt William Sharman Bull, air gunner,
Sgt Eric Thomas Apperson, wireless operator.

Crash of an Avro 652 Anson I into the North Sea: 4 killed

Date & Time: Jun 28, 1940
Type of aircraft:
Operator:
Registration:
N5226
Flight Phase:
Flight Type:
Survivors:
No
Schedule:
Detling - Detling
Country:
Region:
Crew on board:
4
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
4
Circumstances:
The airplane departed RAF Detling and crashed in unknown circumstances into the North Sea. No trace was ever found.
Crew:
P/O Ian F. Lothian,
P/O Alan Swainston,
Sgt John P. Morgan,
Sgt John W. T. Alderslade.

Crash of a Bristol 142 Blenheim IV into the North Sea: 3 killed

Date & Time: Jun 27, 1940
Type of aircraft:
Operator:
Registration:
R3778
Flight Phase:
Survivors:
No
Schedule:
Wyton - Wyton
Country:
Region:
Crew on board:
3
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
3
Circumstances:
The airplane departed RAF Wyton on a reconnaissance mission over Northern France. It was lost without trace, maybe after crashing into the North Sea.
Crew:
Sgt Alexander Dean Kelso,
Sgt James Lister Morton,
Sgt Joseph Charles Winston.

Crash of a Bristol 142 Blenheim IV into the North Sea: 3 killed

Date & Time: Jun 26, 1940
Type of aircraft:
Operator:
Registration:
R3776
Flight Phase:
Flight Type:
Survivors:
No
Schedule:
Wattisham - Wattisham
Country:
Region:
Crew on board:
3
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
3
Circumstances:
The airplane departed RAF Wattisham on a bombing mission over Soest, Germany. It was lost without trace, maybe after it crashed into the North Sea.
Crew:
P/O Cyril Ray Worboys, pilot,
Sgt Kenneth Cooper,
Sgt Gerald Patterson Gainsford.

Crash of a Vickers 416 Wellington IC into the North Sea

Date & Time: Jun 22, 1940
Type of aircraft:
Operator:
Registration:
L7807
Flight Phase:
Flight Type:
Survivors:
Yes
Schedule:
Honington - Honington
Country:
Region:
Crew on board:
6
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
0
Circumstances:
The crew departed RAF Honington at 2015LT on June 21 on a bombing mission over Bremen. At night, the aircraft was hit by unknown fire and the pilot ditched the aircraft into the North Sea, in the vicinity of four British Navy ships. All six crew members were promptly rescued while the aircraft sank and was lost.
Crew (9th Squadron):
F/O G. W. N. Nicholson,
P/O N. E. Canton,
Sgt G. W. Watt,
Sgt J. P. Rayne,
Sgt J. McIntyre,
P/O S. Crawford-Marks.
Probable cause:
Shot down by unknown fire.